70016 - unable to load bookmarks file in browser after viewing a shockwave movie

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Plugins Graveyard :: Shockwave (Adobe), defect)

Description

[James Paige]

Using build 2001022209 on Windows 95

After viewing a shockwave movie, mozilla is unable to view bookmarks.html in a
browser window ( by that I mean
file:///C|Windows/Mozilla/Users50/default/bookmarks.html , not the normal
bookmarks menu in the UI )

To reproduce:

Visit any site with a shockwave movie (Im talking about shockwave .DCR and .DIR
files here, not flash .SWF files. flash doesnt cause this problem) If you dont
know a url with shockwave off the top of your head, try
http://HamsterRepublic.com/sw/kabuupo/

Now try to view file:///C|Windows/Mozilla/Users50/default/bookmarks.html (or
whatever url your actually bookmarks file happens to be at). It will come up blank.

bookmarks.html will not be loadable again for the remainder of the mozilla session.

I havent figured out yet what it is about bookmarks.html that makes it
different, but Ill post it if/when I figure it out

Can anybody else reproduce this?

Comment 1

[James Paige]

erm... this is freakish... from further testing, it only seems to happen if the
bookmarks.html file is located beneath the C:\windows directory. If I copy it
anywhere else, I can load it. file:///C|/windows/bookmarks.html will not ever
load, but file:///C|/temp/bookmarks.html will load just fine. I edited a copy
ofthe bookmarks.html file, and found that there where no changes I could make to
the contents of the file that would change the behavior. I could reduce it to a
single line that said "graaa!" and it still wouldnt load.

I tested with other html files, and maddeningly, got inconsistent results. Some
files would always work no matter where I put them, some would fail only if they
where somewhere beneath c:\windows in the directory structure... editing the
content of the file never seemed to make a difference one way or another.

and all of this only after running a shockwave movie :P

Comment 2

[Keyser Sose]

Reporter try deleting the Mozilla registry in \Windows\Application
Data\Mozilla\*.reg and create a new Profile. See if that fixes the problem.
Report back either way. Thanks in advance.

Comment 3

[James Paige]

Ah, interesting. Well, I do not have a \Windows\Application Data\Mozilla\
directory, and there arent any files with .reg extensions, but I was able to try
a clean profile (by renaming \windows\mozilla\users50 to
\windows\mozilla\users50-bak) and with a clean profile, I no longer saw the
strange symptoms at all. It looks like thats all that it was -- Thanks Keyser
Sosez! 

Resolving WORKSFORME, but before it gets verified, could anyone tell me if there
is anything I can edit in my profile to fix this, or am I just stuck with
recreate a new profile from scratch? (sure its an old profile-- but it has
sentimental value! :)

Comment 4

[Keyser Sose]

Not really sorry :( You have to just use the new one. Sorry, and thanks for the
prompt response.

Comment 5

[James Paige]

marking verified. This is ancient history